July 1, 2012

President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital to raise doubts about Mr. Romney’s commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say.

President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto began the transition to power on Monday, declaring that he would begin to name members of his cabinet, and pledging to defeat organized crime and improve the economy.

The Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s book “The Colonel” has just been published in the United States even though it has not yet come out in his home country, where Mr. Dowlatabadi has been regarded as a subversive for decades.

Since President Obama swept into office with vast backing from young people, a new corps of voters have come of age with views shaped by the recession.

Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted,” a comedy about a foul-mouthed teddy bear come to life, took in an estimated $54.1 million to reach No. 1 for its opening weekend.

With a rout of Italy, Spain won its second consecutive European championship and third major title in a row, along with the 2010 World Cup.

“Philharmonic 360,” a program by the conductor Alan Gilbert, matched the cavernous Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory to works conceived with a spatial dimension.

Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh will race Monday to determine who will claim the final spot to represent the United States in the women’s 100 meters at the Olympics.

A pledge to create a central regulator has analysts asking whether the new agency would be given the power to rein in risky practices and hold banks accountable.

Despite its title, “Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia,” now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, features only 10 works by the those artists in a survey of 60 paintings.

The success of News Corporation’s cable and entertainment assets has shielded its print properties from a downturn, but now journalists at those publications worry about their future in a separate company.

The falling fortunes of Rupert Murdoch’s publishing assets finally compelled him to agree to split News Corporation into two companies, a move he had long resisted.